VPN

Jeremy jeremy at itassist.net.au
Tue Oct 30 11:53:19 EST 2001


Martijn van Oosterhout writes:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:29:32PM +0000, Jeremy wrote:
> > Also, how does the routing work?  I thought that VPNs are connected in a
> > star arrangement, which means that network speed drops to 1/X for X
> > simultaneous users.
> 
> On simple VPNs yes. However, there do exist VPN systems that actually
> implement an ARP type protocol and allow machines to talk to eachother
> directly, thus emulating a fully connected network. These don't work so well
> with NAT but it can be done.

Got any links?
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